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Apple iPad with MS office docs query Ping!
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Posted on 03/26/2011 1:35:50 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
I'd like to own a iPad but I use word and excel files quite a bit for work. From what I can tell, from using the ipad in the Apple store, Word/Excel/PowerPoint files won't work on a iPad. Is this true?
If not, how do you get around this limitation?
does the ipad have capitable programs that can easily convert between MS office and ipad files?
Cause then you would be kool. Without it you can never get there.
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The iPad should include basic programs like this. Hate that part. Would love to run open office.
Also hate the inability to print ( without paying $10 for an app)
Also hate the inability to run flash.....this isn’t where my files are stored, so I am okay with running flash. Why prevent me from doing so.
The iPad is nice, but not nearly as nice as it could be.
I’m working on a project to get an excel application running on an iPad. It’s not going to work. We are going to recommend a Windows based tablet.
Why for the life of me do I need I-Pad. I've seen people with them and they only seem to be playing games and such. I need some time just to be free of technology like driving to work and such. What would someone like me benefit from by having an I-Pad or even a more powerful smart phone? What's the advantage of this?
That's a tall order so I'll try to answer. First, I don't have an Ipad, but I bought my wife one this morning from a guy who who has an Ipad2 on order. In her case, it has a lot of specialized apps that are applicable to her field in medicine.
I myself have a Galaxy Tab, which I love. The reason I have it, and the reason I chose it over an Ipad, is that it's my reading device. I carry around several hundred books, news papers etc, all in one place. It's the perfect size for reading whereas the Ipad is the perfect size for web browsing.
The smart phone on the other hand consolidates several devices that I used to own. I passed my Tom-Tom on to my daughter, my Ipod to my son, and I no longer carry a pocket camera mountain biking. Seriously, how can you beat that? One device navigates, plays music at the gym or on the bike, takes decent snapshots, shoots HD video and makes phone calls. It's replaced everything except my bulky digital SLR.
You are right — they are excellent for drawing up files, and making quick notations. Just hard to write long things on.
I got the camera connector kit for my iPad. When I was in DC for the Restoring Honor rally, I took many pictures with the DSLR. On the walk back to the hotel, we stopped for lunch, while we were waiting for the food to arrive, I whipped the iPad out of the camera bag, connected the camera, and it immediately read the card, thumb nailed all the pictures, allowing me to review them full screen, mark them for importation, after which it deleted the card readying it for another round of shooting.
Drinks after lunch allowed the pad to passed around the table for others to view the pics of the day, as well as other pics I had on it.
Eye-Fi makes a WiFi enabled SD card that can upload pics to the pad as they’re taken. It’s pretty cool!
The iPad is just another tool. You can use it just for games, or you can use it for other things.
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Open Office is coming soon to Android.
I can’t wait until the Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes out in June. Same price point as iPad and far more features- and Android. :)
Then you've never been in an Apple store. You won't be "condescended to" at all. You will be surprised at wonderful service you get... With no pressure to buy what you don't need.
You mistakenly thought the Original Poster was trying to sell you on an iPad. Don’t click on threads that have the word iPad in them so you can avoid becoming distraught.
My Apple store has several grey hairs. I am even going to give them a shout out by name when I review the Glendale, CA Apple store.
I may even apply for a job there when I retire [very soon].
My Apple store has several grey hairs. I am even going to give them a shout out by name when I review the Glendale, CA Apple store on Yelp.
I may even apply for a job there when I retire [very soon].
RE: You mistakenly thought the Original Poster was trying to sell you on an iPad. Don’t click on threads that have the word iPad in them so you can avoid becoming distraught.
Awe Bunny c’mon. You know those lines of anti-Apple kookaine can make one quite paranoid.
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Full disclosure: I don't have an iPad either -- but if someone would show me a high-quality GIS-cartographic program capable of producing a continuous, real-time GPS track overlay atop a high quality topo map or Google Earth image -- I probably would get one for use in the field doing (as I did today) survey archaeology.
IOW, if you have a need that it meets -- go for it! Otherwise, be happy! ;-)
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